City residents have fun at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on September 20, 2020. Health ministry records now show that the first person confirmed to have Covid-19 in the country was a 28-year-old French national.
Three other people who travelled into the country before Kenya officially announced its first case are also listed in the Health ministry data.
The 31-year-old female who travelled from the UK arrived into the country on KQ flight 101 and was diagnosed in Nairobi while the French man arrived in Nairobi on and flight AF814.
The coronavirus was detected in Kenya earlier than stated by the Ministry of Health, the Nation can reveal today.
Despite the first case being reported on March 13, official information from the Health ministry shows that the first person confirmed to have Covid-19 was a 28-year-old French national, who arrived from France aboard an Air France flight 814 on March 4.
